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Re: Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2009
Hi. It's really important in a controversial article like Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2009, that when you add contentious content that can be challenged by other editors, that you always remember to add references. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 10:01, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
- I've added a ref from the NYT ([1]). Thanks for reminding me. --Jatkins (talk - contribs) 10:05, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks! Viriditas (talk) 10:18, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Regarding Google News stories, it is still possible to use them. What you want to do is create a WebCite for the URL (here) and add it to the archiveurl parameter in the citation template. That's the current solution to the problem. And, if I'm not mistaken, the yahoo link you replaced it with will disappear as well. Viriditas (talk) 10:25, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, okay. Thanks (I thought the Yahoo! article would stay because it has a proper URI, unlike Google News articles with the GUID). --Jatkins (talk - contribs) 10:30, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
- You might be right, but in my experience some of the Yahoo news articles disappear after several weeks. Is there a way to find out for sure? Viriditas (talk) 10:39, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
- You're right, according to the Yahoo! News help AP wire stories are only kept for two weeks. --Jatkins (talk - contribs) 10:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
- http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/news/cctop10/cctop10-624510.html --Jatkins (talk - contribs) 10:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
- You might be right, but in my experience some of the Yahoo news articles disappear after several weeks. Is there a way to find out for sure? Viriditas (talk) 10:39, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Regarding the above material
You may or may not want to comment on its recent removal. The discussion can be found here. Viriditas (talk) 01:31, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks. --Jatkins (talk - contribs) 13:38, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
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The article Scott Steele has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Player fails WP:ATHLETE and WP:GNG
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will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. GiantSnowman 19:24, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- Hey, in that case, you could simply add the {{db-author}} template to the article to get it speedily deleted. Cheers, GiantSnowman 20:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- Done. --Jatkins (talk - contribs) 21:13, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Your 16 November 2008 edit to Ken Livingstone article
I just undid a small part of an edit you made on 16 November 2008 to the article on Ken Livingstone, and I want to explain why. In that edit, you changed autobiography-cum-political tract to autobiography-come-political tract; I have changed the come back to cum. I hope I don't come across as pedantic or condescending, but cum in this kind of construction is the Latin preposition cum, meaning with, not a misspelling of the English word come. I'm not sure that was your reason for making that change, but it's the only one I can think of. Since you clearly are a serious Wikipedia editor, I just wanted to explain to you why I undid your work in this instance.--Jim10701 (talk) 17:20, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
- No problem, thanks for letting me know. --Jatkins (talk - contribs) 17:37, 26 December 2009 (UTC)